Stocktake study of current fertilisation recommendations across Europe and discussion towards a more harmonised approach     

Suzanne Higgins  Saskia D. Keesstra  Žydrė Kadziuliene  Lionel Jordan-Meille  David Wall  Alessandra Trinchera  Heide Spiegel  Taru Sandén  Andreas Baumgarten  Johannes L. Jensen  Juliane Hirte  Frank Liebisch  Susanne Klages  Philipp Löw  Katrin Kuka  Maarten De Boever  Karoline D'Haene  Sevinc Madenoglu  Hesna Özcan  Wieke Vervuurt  Janjo de Haan  Willem van Geel  Bo Stenberg  Pascal Denoroy  Rok Mihelič  Alar Astover  Raquel Mano  Cristina Sempiterno  Fatima Calouro  Giuseppe Valboa  Helena Aronsson  Tore Krogstad  Stanislav Torma  Jose Gabriel  Peter Laszlo  Nils Borchard  Bartosz Adamczyk  Anna Jacobs  Beata Jurga  Bożena Smreczak  Bruno Huyghebaert  Morgan Abras  Raimonds Kasparinskis  Eloise Mason  Claire Chenu 《European Journal of Soil Science》2023,74(5):e13422

The European Commission has set targets for a reduction in nutrient losses by at least 50% and a reduction in fertiliser use by at least 20% by 2030 while ensuring no deterioration in soil fertility. Within the mandate of the European Joint Programme EJP Soil ‘Towards climate-smart sustainable management of agricultural soils’, the objective of this study was to assess current fertilisation practices across Europe and discuss the potential for harmonisation of fertilisation methodologies as a strategy to reduce nutrient loss and overall fertiliser use. A stocktake study of current methods of delivering fertilisation advice took place across 23 European countries. The stocktake was in the form of a questionnaire, comprising 46 questions. Information was gathered on a large range of factors, including soil analysis methods, along with soil, crop and climatic factors taken into consideration within fertilisation calculations. The questionnaire was completed by experts, who are involved in compiling fertilisation recommendations within their country. Substantial differences exist in the content, format and delivery of fertilisation guidelines across Europe. The barriers, constraints and potential benefits of a harmonised approach to fertilisation across Europe are discussed. The general consensus from all participating countries was that harmonisation of fertilisation guidelines should be increased, but it was unclear in what format this could be achieved. Shared learning in the delivery and format of fertilisation guidelines and mechanisms to adhere to environmental legislation were viewed as being beneficial. However, it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to harmonise all soil test data and fertilisation methodologies at EU level due to diverse soil types and agro-ecosystem influences. Nevertheless, increased future collaboration, especially between neighbouring countries within the same environmental zone, was seen as potentially very beneficial. This study is unique in providing current detail on fertilisation practices across European countries in a side-by-side comparison. The gathered data can provide a baseline for the development of scientifically based EU policy targets for nutrient loss and soil fertility evaluation.  相似文献   

Use of C-reactive protein to predict outcome in dogs with systemic inflammatory response syndrome or sepsis     

Constance Gebhardt  Dr med vet  ; Johannes Hirschberger  Dr med vet  DECVIM  DECVCP  ; Stefanie Rau  Dr med vet  ; Gisela Arndt  Dr rer pol  ; Karen Krainer  ; Florian J. Schweigert  Dr med vet  ; Leo Brunnberg  Dr med vet  ; Bernd Kaspers  Dr med vet    Barbara Kohn  Dr med vet  DECVIM 《Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care》2009,19(5):450-458

Background – There is a high mortality rate in patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) or sepsis. Therefore, an early diagnosis and prognostic assessment is important for optimal therapeutic intervention. The objective of the study was to evaluate if baseline values and changes in serum C-reactive protein (CRP) might predict survival in dogs with SIRS and sepsis.
Design – Prospective study; July 2004 to July 2005.
Setting – Small Animal Clinic, Berlin, Clinic of Small Animal Medicine, Munich.
Animals – Sixty-one dogs.
Measurements and Main Results – For the CRP analysis blood was drawn on day 0, 1, and 2; CRP was measured using a commercial ELISA test kit. Thirteen dogs suffered from nonseptic SIRS and 48 dogs from sepsis. The 14-day survival rate was 61% (69% nonseptic SIRS, 58% sepsis). Serum CRP was higher in sick dogs compared with controls ( P <0.001). Over the 3-day period surviving dogs ( n =31) displayed a significantly greater decrease in CRP than nonsurvivors ( n =10) ( P =0.001). No correlation was found between the initial CRP concentrations and the survival rate. The changes in CRP corresponded to the survival rate ( P =0.01).
Conclusion – There was no significant relationship between the survival rate in dogs with nonseptic SIRS or sepsis and the initial serum CRP concentrations. There was a correlation between decreasing CRP concentrations and recovery from disease. However, the changes in CRP concentrations over a 3-day period correctly predicted survival in 94% of dogs and death in 30% of the dogs (false positive rate 22%).  相似文献   

Effect of heat damage in an autoclave on the reactive lysine contents of soy products and corn distillers dried grains with solubles. Use of the results to check on lysine damage in common qualities of these ingredients     

Fontaine J  Zimmer U  Moughan PJ  Rutherfurd SM 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》2007,55(26):10737-10743

The suitability of the homoarginine reaction for determining the reactive lysine in soy products and corn distillers dried grain with solubles (DDGS) was tested. For this purpose, some batches were subjected to deliberate heat damage for up to 30 min in an autoclave with 135 degrees C hot steam, and the samples were analyzed for total lysine and reactive lysine. In addition, 84 samples of common soy and 80 samples of corn DDGS were tested for their content of total and reactive lysine, and the contents were compared with those of the autoclave tests. For soy products conclusive results were obtained. In the case of heat treatment, both total lysine and reactive lysine decrease, but the latter is clearly a more sensitive indicator of lysine damage. Most normal products are quite similar, with toasting-induced damage to reactive lysine of ca. 15% compared to untoasted beans. The cause of the constantly occurring residual lysine after guanidination and the poorer reaction balance in the case of damage were explained. For common DDGS samples, however, less favorable results were obtained. Reactive and total lysine decreased almost in parallel due to heat damage, showing a great gap between them. Results showed indeed that variation of total and reactive lysine in DDGS is high, proving that its production conditions are not yet optimal for a feed ingredient.  相似文献   

Managing successional trajectories in alien-dominated, novel ecosystems by facilitating seedling regeneration: A case study     

Christoph Kueffer  Eva Schumacher  Hansjörg Dietz  Karl Fleischmann  Peter J. Edwards 《Biological conservation》2010,143(7):1792-1802

Managing novel ecosystems that emerge after strong anthropogenic disturbance and the spread of alien species poses complex problems. As a case example, we discuss efforts on the tropical oceanic island Mahé (Seychelles) to promote the regeneration of native trees in tropical secondary forest dominated by the invasive tree Cinnamomum verum (true cinnamon).We monitored the growth of transplanted and self-sown native and alien tree seedlings in both artificially created forest gaps and in the understorey of closed forest. In the understorey, native species survived but grew very slowly, indicating that any recovery of native tree populations would also be very slow. In larger gaps, seedlings of certain invasive species grew particularly fast, suggesting that these species would rapidly dominate. Nutrient addition had only a minor positive effect on seedling growth, especially in the understorey.Although neither closed canopy conditions nor large gaps are conducive to the recovery of native seedlings, our data indicate that intermediate levels of canopy disturbance, i.e. those attained by felling one or a few trees, provide a combination of below- and aboveground resource limitation of seedling growth that may favour native species over invasive species. Based on these findings, we propose a strategy for restoring native vegetation that entails making small gaps in cinnamon-dominated forest and planting them with native tree species.This study illustrates how management strategies can be improved by combining insights gained from past interventions with the results of field and greenhouse experiments.  相似文献   

Large-scale biotechnological production of the antileukemic marine natural product sorbicillactone A          下载免费PDF全文

Bringmann G  Gulder TA  Lang G  Schmitt S  Stöhr R  Wiese J  Nagel K  Imhoff JF 《Marine drugs》2007,5(2):23-30

In the search for novel bioactive compounds from sponge-derived microorganisms, we have recently identified two structurally and biosynthetically unprecedented fungal metabolites, the novel-type alkaloids sorbicillactone A and sorbicillactone B. Sorbicillactone A is active against leukemia cells without showing notable cytotoxicity. Therefore, we have developed an efficient process for its biotechnological production and isolation on a large scale supplying sufficient material for the ongoing preclinical investigations and structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies.  相似文献   

Temperature and soil moisture change microbial allocation of pesticide-derived carbon     

Johannes Wirsching  Luciana Chavez Rodriguez  Franziska Ditterich  Holger Pagel  Rushan He  Marie Uksa  Christian Zwiener  Ellen Kandeler  Christian Poll 《European Journal of Soil Science》2023,74(5):e13417

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